Cyber security

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December 15, 2022
The white paper provides accessible advice for overcoming hurdles in designing, building and operating OT security programs. These recommendations include setting goals and responsibilities to determine vulnerabilities, selecting countermeasures and governance systems, implementing controls, and embedding assurance schemes.
Article
October 2022
As companies adopt new technologies to make business more effective and efficient, new risks emerge, and old risks evolve. This requires great cybersecurity that has tools and processes built to adapt to change with minimal effort.
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November 20, 2022
Offshore U.S. oil and natural gas installations are “at significant risk” of cyber-attack, according to a federal watchdog that warned of a potential disaster on par with the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout.
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September 27, 2022
Uniwise Offshore, Thailand’s leading offshore support vessel (OSV) company, is enhancing cyber-security standards across its OSV fleet by adopting technology from Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications. With reliable connectivity delivered by Inmarsat’s Fleet Xpress, Fleet Secure Unified Threat Management (UTM) provides Uniwise with end-to-end functionality to protect its network from cyber-attacks and intrusion via infected devices.
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August 09, 2022
The majority of companies across the U.S. oil and gas industry are at risk of a successful cyber breach according to BreachBits, a cyber risk rating and monitoring company that evaluates and tests organizations from a hacker’s perspective.
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Dragos Overview | Your Ally Against Industrial Cyber Threats

April 14, 2022
Webcast

How to make your offshore operations cyber secure and reliable

June 15, 2021
Siemens Energy
Modern offshore operations are highly complex, generating tens of thousands of data points and transmitting them to onshore control centers across multiple types of networks. Offshore facilities also include technologies from many suppliers that interface with the main process control system, each with their own cybersecurity profile. Mature, proven control systems are often selected but require interfaces to new technologies. In this heterogeneous environment that combines old and new, understanding what's on the network can be a significant challenge. Similarly, tracking and managing patches, obsolescence, antivirus, and hardening profiles multiplies in complexity. Many IT offerings do not contemplate these environments so the industry is turning to customized OT cybersecurity products. Register for this free webinar and you will learn - Why cybersecurity is a critical consideration when implementing a de-manning strategy What are the current technologies that are being used in offshore digitalization and threat profiles How to reduce cybersecurity risk for offshore operations
Webcast

Cyber Threats in the Oil and Gas Industry - Understanding Defense, Detection and Response

June 30, 2020
Rockwell Automation
This webinar will provide practical insights and timely intelligence to share how improving cyber security in your oil and gas operations can help provide better and more valuable business outcomes. Attendees will hear about real life cyber security incidents and the steps organizations took to improve the situation. Join speaker Tiffany Hockensmith to gain a better understanding of: • How to protect critical infrastructure • The approach needed to improve cyber resilience • How to ensure an effective incident response plan • How defense mechanisms should be allocated to technology, processes and staff
News
February 20, 2020
A recent ransomware attack caused a U.S. natural gas compressor facility to shut for two days, the latest in a string of attacks targeting the country’s energy infrastructure over the past few years.
News
July 30, 2019
Emerson opens its newest cybersecurity lab to help manufacturers confidently adopt digital transformation strategies, while protecting the integrity of their plant operations, networks, systems and data.
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May 07, 2019
Bright and early on Monday morning, in a special press briefing on the first day of the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Siemens and TÜV SÜD announced that they are coming together to address the growing risk of cyberattacks on critical infrastructure.
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April 29, 2019
In a deal that puts a spotlight on the shadowy world of cyberwarfare, Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. agreed to acquire KeyW Holding Corp. for about $603 million, increasing its number of employees with top-secret government access by 50%.
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April 29, 2019
The UK’s cybersecurity agency said it won’t automatically share information about data breaches with the country’s data privacy regulator.
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April 29, 2019
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010, the U.S. Department of the Interior launched a series of aggressive reforms to improve safety in offshore well operations.
News
April 29, 2019
ARC featured a considerable cybersecurity track at this year’s Industry Forum in Orlando, and convergence of safety and cybersecurity was a major topic.
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September 04, 2018
As cybersecurity threats to the oil and gas industry have grown exponentially, various strategies have been deployed to safeguard companies’ computer and control systems. One new technology in particular, blockchain, has emerged as a highly innovative and effective solution.
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August 29, 2018
While the global oil and gas industry seems to have plenty of innovation and new thinking to show off at ONS this year, there is a group of folks that thinks it is coming up short in one specific area and that would be fighting cybersecurity threats adequately.
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August 24, 2018
As companies come together to discuss innovation and how to redefine themselves in this digital environment, Siemens will focus on Topsides 4.0, cybersecurity, subsea power, and energy storage solutions at the upcoming Offshore Northern Seas (ONS) trade fair, August 27-30 in Stavanger, Norway, Booth #2550.
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July 31, 2018
With hacking attacks mounting against U.S. energy companies, guarding the sector will be a top priority for a new cybersecurity effort, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on Tuesday.
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April 30, 2018
What’s the cost of securing the nation’s energy from a cyber attack?
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April 16, 2018
The U.S. wants to fund research targeting improved cybersecurity for the nation’s power grid and the oil and natural gas industry.
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